Four Split Personalities

"Heh~"

"Stay serious! We’re in a war here!"

"Yes, yes, Commander~"

"Orders, logistics unit proceed to preset target point nine, establish a supply line."

"Yes, sir!"

"Orders..."

...

"Retreating so decisively, as expected, they must have already left a way out."

Teresa casually put down the report, smiled lazily, and scanned the sand table with Foster Ward’s eyes, shaking her head somewhat helplessly and said, "A very clever tactic~"

The face just returned to Teresa’s side immediately asked curiously, "Clever? How so?"

"Just clever in the literal sense."

Teresa instinctively wanted to sit sideways on the chair with her legs together, then suddenly realized how impactful it would look with Foster Ward’s appearance, so she helplessly changed to sitting with crossed legs and explained leisurely, "When you are sure your opponent is not as skilled as you, you forcibly lock the main conflict area in the ’neutral zone’, directly crushing with superior command ability. If conditions allow, ensure at least three indiscriminate slaughter battles; once the war evolves to this extent..."

Lian picked up the two instruction cards Teresa gently pushed to the front of her, frowned, and asked, "Then what?"

"The stronger side will win."

Teresa covered the lower half of her face with the folding fan borrowed from Foster (inscribed: Lan Shou Xiang Gu) and her eyes were full of mirth, "It’s the most complex, elegant, yet the simplest and most brutal way. Well, how to say, today’s Black Vatican Priest... hehe, is a bit different."

Lian’s footsteps paused slightly, she turned her head to look at Teresa with an inquisitive gaze, "Different?"

"It’s just a more tactful way of saying it."

"And what would it be if you weren’t tactful?"

"Do you really want to hear it? I’m currently wearing Foster’s face, you know, Lian~ Senpai~"

Teresa smiled slightly behind the folding fan covering the lower half of her face, her eyes behind her glasses squinting into crescents.

"Forget it..."

As soon as the thought of possibly being jealous of a man crossed Lian’s mind, she instinctively shuddered and quickly disappeared from the command room.

[Hoo, although it is Foster who’s being underestimated, it still feels a bit frustrating~]

[Even though I want to calm down and compete properly, just thinking about Priest Hei Fan and Prince Chen Wangyu being in the same command room discussing how to deal with me is unbearable to think about...]

[Heehee, since they make me restless, then pretending to be Foster’s predecessor should also be forgivable, let’s call it even!]

[It’s been so long since I’ve been this excited, and I don’t want to trouble Ramollok’s chief priest to spar with me, it’s already enough!]

[Being able to play a simulation game properly with you is already very satisfying.]

[Come, my prince~]

[It’s time to pick up the pace a little!]

...

At the same time, in the Judge’s Box

Richard Ducasse squinted his eyes slightly, exchanged a glance with Andre who almost turned his head at the same time, and said in a deep voice, "Did you see anything?"

"Both independent sand tables clearly support real-time updates because of the Scout system being fully laid out, but the frequency of the counselors entering orders on both sides has not decreased but instead increased significantly."

Andre concisely summarized and said calmly, "It’s not hard to see that both sides have started competing on details, and not just ordinary details. You noticed the few formation changes that young man from the Light Teachings faction made earlier, right? All were preemptive moves, precise to a somewhat frightening degree."

Richard nodded slightly, and said in a deep voice, "Not only that, as far as I know, the Dawn Priest named Hei Fan should be encountering a simulation for the first time, in other words, before this exchange meeting, he didn’t even know how an instruction card should be written."

"If it were Barty, Richard, La Ersi, or Lei Ersi, they would have been badly damaged by the Black Vatican Priest with at least two army groups at first sight, don’t forget that girl confirmed the intelligence for a while before entering the instruction cards, and at least two-thirds of that stack went directly into the recycle bin."

Andre carefully watched the largest crystal screen in mid-air, took a deep breath, "If the Red side’s reaction is slightly slower, they might have been hit hard by thunderous blows."

Richard’s seemingly expressionless face did not show any emotion, only speaking in the same emotionless tone, "That’s so, but what I meant was not about that..."

"Is it your student?"

Because there were others in the judge’s box, the two of them didn’t want to make their whispering too obvious, so Andre simply asked relatively tactfully, "Or ’our student’?"

Richard gave his old friend a sharp look, hinted with some meaning, "As far as I know, Foster was never a talented student."

A few of the equally esteemed judges nearby discreetly rolled their eyes, feeling Richard’s pretentious play (literally translated) was a bit excessive.

Andre immediately realized another layer of meaning in those words.

Simply put, it could roughly be summarized as—

’Yes, I believe the person on the competition seat is not Foster Ward, but rather our beloved child whom we’ve watched grow up.’

Andre’s gaze became sharp.

And Richard, who had ’verified’ this with his old friend, also squinted his eyes similarly.

Even though they didn’t understand how Teresa became Foster, or why Teresa, who originally had no interest in this Warfire League, wanted to sit in the competition seat, there was one thing they knew for certain—

That these two originally unbiased chief judges had completely abandoned their duties, solely wishing for Teresa to win.

Isn’t this unfair?

Nonsense, Little Teresa is the best! Her winning is fair!

Honestly, if the method of determining victory in this match wasn’t so glaringly obvious or if there wasn’t any room for the judges to intervene, these two old gentlemen wouldn’t mind blowing a biased whistle, listing a bunch of reasons that although incomprehensible, would be deeply impressive, to send ’Foster Ward’ through to the next round.

Of course, with that aside, neither Richard nor Andre truly believes Teresa would lose, certainly not to that obscure Black Vatican Priest, even though he...

"Precise, stable."

Andre, whose mindset had slightly shifted, frowned a little.

"Though not elegant..."

Richard took a deep breath, his face dark, "Yet flawless."

"When did the Church of the Dawn develop such a character."

"Why, feeling old?"

"Heh, I’ve always been old, but that child surely hasn’t aged."

"Calculating time, it should be about right, her pace..."

"Let’s speed it up!"

...

In a corner of the crystal screen, red and blue markers almost simultaneously appeared in each other’s sight line and accomplished at least three sets of complex tactical maneuvers in the instant of contact. The blue side’s structure, originally for long-distance forays, quickly transformed into a robust ’grinding disc’, while the red side’s Mage Group in run-and-gun setup immediately began building fortifications and systematically initiated indiscriminate bombardment!

In almost an instant, both sides lost more than thirty percent of their combat power. At this moment, the Mage Group was crushed by the ’grinding disc’ that clung on at all costs by a third. Still, at the moment the surviving forces completed casting spells, the originally fierce-looking grinding disc was blown apart by nearly half.

And such scenes were present in dozens of places throughout the whole overlook map!

Simultaneously, in the middle area located at the boundary of powers of both parties, in the fuzzy control zone for both, large amounts of damage were being created every second and then turned into a stream of data that appeared in the statistics of the [Battle Six Type].

In the commentary booth, facing the small screen that almost produced phantoms from refreshing so fast, Lei Er Si and La Ersi surprisingly didn’t speak, just glanced at each other in disbelief—

They’re still accelerating!!

Chapter 1310: End

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